Humanities in Medicine Lecture Series, Yale University, 2005-2006

THE PROGRAM FOR HUMANITIES IN MEDICINE

2005-2006 LECTURES Lectures are at 5 PM on Thursdays, unless otherwise noted, and are free and open to the public.
This year they are held at various locations. See location after each date:

Anlyan Center - 300 Cedar Street
Beaumont Room - 333 Cedar Street
Historical Library - 333 Cedar Street
John Slade Ely House - 51 Trumbull Street
Whitney Humanities Center - 53 Wall Street

For more information, e-mail or call Deborah Finger at (203) 785-4744.

September October November December January February March April May

September 8 - Anlyan Center BREAKING THE CYCLE OF VIOLENCE The Dobihal Lecture Colin Murray Parkes, OBE, MD, FRCPsych Honorary Consultant Psychiatrist to St. Christopher's Hospice, Sydenham Consultant Psychiatrist to St. Joseph's Hospice, Hackney Author, Life President of Cruse: Bereavement Care

September 22 - Whitney Humanities Center, 6:45 PM In conjunction with the Muriel Gardiner Psychoanalytic Program DEATH AS A RIGHT, DEATH AS A WRONG: SOME PSYCHOANALYTIC CONSIDERATIONS Robert Burt, JD Alexander M. Bickel Professor of Law Professor of Institutional Social Policy Studies Yale University

September 28, Wednesday - Beaumont Room PROFESSIONALISM IN A GLOBALIZING WORLD Solomon R. Benatar, MBChB Professor of Medicine Director of the University of Cape Town Bioethics Centre Cape Town, South Africa
October 6 - Beaumont Room SOUL MADE FLESH The Arnold Baskin Lecture Carl Zimmer Author Guilford, CT
October 20 - John Slade Ely House Gallery SAVING FACES: THE ARTIST IN THE HOSPITAL Mark Depman, MD Physician and Artist Connecticut
November 3 - Historical Library PSYCHOLOGICAL AND SOCIAL PERSPECTIVES ON LIVING WITH FACIAL DISFIGUREMENT The Barwick Lecture Thomas Pruzinsky, PhD Professor of Psychology, Quinnipiac University Adjunct Professor, Institute of Reconstructive Plastic Surgery, New York Medical Center
November 17 - Beaumont Room WHAT'S IN A WORD? WHAT'S IN A FACE? Chalmers Clark, PhD Visiting Fellow in the Center for Philosophy and History of Science Boston University
December 1 - Beaumont Room FROZEN SMILES, FROZEN FROWNS Marianne La France, PhD Professor of Psyhchology Yale University
December 8 - John Slade Ely House Gallery VOLTE FACE: THE HEAD IN THE HISORY OF TASTE Angus Trumble Curator of Paintings and Sculpture Yale Center of British Art
December 15 - Beaumont Room WHAT THE THEATER TAUGHT ME ABOUT ALZHEIMER'S The Robert Penn Warren Lecture Elinor Fuchs,PhD Professor of Dramaturgy & Dramatic Criticism Yale School of Drama
January 12 - Anlyan Center, 6:45PM In conjunction with the Muriel Gardiner Psychoanalytic Program BRAIN AND CULTURE: NEUROPLASTICITY, IDEAOLOGY AND SOCIAL CHANGE Bruce Wexler, MD Professor of Psychiatry Yale University
January 26 - Beaumont Room WOMEN AND SCIENCE The James D. Kenney Lecture Cynthia Russett, PhD Larned Professor of History Yale University
February 9 - Beaumont Room A BLACK PROFESSOR REFLECTS ON THIRTY YEARS AT YALE The Multicultural Lecture Ezra Griffith, MD Deputy Chairman, Clinical Affairs Psychiatry Professor of African American Studies Yale University
February 23 - Anlyan Center WHERE THE TRUTH IS STRONGER THAN FICTION: STORIES FROM AFRICA The Howard Spiro Lecture Majid Sadigh, MD Associate Professor of Medicine Waterbury Hospital
March 9 - Anlyan Center INTENSIVE CARE: THE ART OF POETRY AND NURSING Cortney Davis, NP, MA Women's OB/Gyn Danbury, CT
March 23 - Beaumont Room EXPERIENCING NATURE IN HUMAN HEALTH AND HEALING Stephen Kellert, PhD Tweedy/Ordway Professor of Social Ecology Co-Director of the Hixon Center for Urban Ecology Yale School of Forestry
April 6 - Beaumont Room MEANINGFUL CONNECTIONS WITH THE COMMUNITY: INVOLVING DOCTORS IN TRAINING The Dillard Lecture Stephen Huot, MD, PhD Professor of Medcine Program Director of Primary Care Residency Yale University
April 20 - Beaumont Room NEW WRITINGS BY RICHARD SELZER The McGovern Lecture Richard Selzer, MD Author Yale University
May 4 - Anlyan Center WRITERS WORKSHOP Richard Selzer, MD Author Yale University

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